:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Friday, June 07, 2002 ::

And the Emmy Could Go to: Comedy Actresses Worthy of the Statuette

Lauren Graham should win everything. I mean like lotto, an emmy, MVP for the National league....

:: Jim Nichols 6/07/2002 07:09:00 AM [+] ::
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"I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the
wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other
countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them
and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of
the people."

Edmund Burke
--Reflections on the Revolution in France

:: Jim Nichols 6/07/2002 03:19:00 AM [+] ::
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ABC Plays God, Bleeps "Jesus"

:: Jim Nichols 6/07/2002 03:16:00 AM [+] ::
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Dee Dee Ramone, Rock Singer and Artist, Dies at 49

:: Jim Nichols 6/07/2002 03:12:00 AM [+] ::
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Putin Tries Weaning Russia Off the Oil Barrel

:: Jim Nichols 6/06/2002 01:49:00 AM [+] ::
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EU Market Recognition is Linked to Gas

From Evil Empire to potential cheap labor in under 20 years.

:: Jim Nichols 6/06/2002 01:45:00 AM [+] ::
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NATO Plans New 'Military Concept' for New Threats

New "military Concept" for terrorism... its not new. Its called counter-terrorism. And its the exact same thing, except its done by the (do the bunny-ear fingers with me people) "good guys".

:: Jim Nichols 6/06/2002 01:30:00 AM [+] ::
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been sing to myself... all the live long day

"Morality enforcement based on the interests of a state, coerced into concordance and threatened into place. It's not just isolated incidents of cop-jocks kicking ass. It's a fucking war machine protecting the wealth of the employing class." --Propagandhi

:: Jim Nichols 6/06/2002 01:13:00 AM [+] ::
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"The means of... communication..., the irresistible output of the entertainment and
information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual
and emotional reactions which bind the consumers... to the producers and, through the
latter to the whole [social system]. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they
promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood... Thus emerges a
pattern of one-dimensional thought and behaviour." --Herbert Marcuse

:: Jim Nichols 6/06/2002 01:02:00 AM [+] ::
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Found a great web site.... called Voice of the Shuttle.

Dandy of a humanities web site, if I do say so. And I do. So I have. There you go.

(okay i'm going to edit that "great"... it has a bunch of dead links...but what it does have is still really good)

:: Jim Nichols 6/06/2002 12:49:00 AM [+] ::
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Well geezz the U.S. actually won a world cup game

U.S. 3
Portugal 2

It was an excellent match to watch.

:: Jim Nichols 6/05/2002 03:56:00 AM [+] ::
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I'm tired of people always talking about how they want "the world to work." The world works just fine, it always has and always will--no matter what we infinitely unimportant beings ever do. What they mean to say is that the world is not working the way they'd like it to.

:: Jim Nichols 6/04/2002 09:27:00 AM [+] ::
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I always doubt what I know is right and I tend to be correct in that assumption.

:: Jim Nichols 6/04/2002 06:28:00 AM [+] ::
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My whole tendency and, I believe, the
tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion
was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against
the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless. Ethics so far
as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate
meaning of life, the absolute good, the absolute valuable, can be no
science. What it says does not add to our knowledge in any sense. But
it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which I personally
cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it.

--Ludwig Wittgenstein

:: Jim Nichols 6/03/2002 03:52:00 AM [+] ::
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4.003 Most propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical matters are not false but senseless. We cannot, therefore, answer questions of this kind at all, but only state their senselessness. Most questions and propositions of the philosopohers result from the fact that we do not understand the logic of our language. They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful

:: Jim Nichols 6/03/2002 03:21:00 AM [+] ::
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6.53 The correct method in philosophy would really be the following: to say nothing
except what can be said, i.e. propositions of natural science--i.e. something that has
nothing to do with philosophy--and then, whenever someone else wanted to say something
metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had failed to give a meaning to certain signs in
his propositions. Although it would not be satisfying to the other person--he would not
have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy--this method would be the only
strictly correct one.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"

:: Jim Nichols 6/03/2002 03:13:00 AM [+] ::
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So much he says confuses me, but I still see something in him that fascinates me as much as Nietzsche

5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

5.61 Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also its limits.So we cannot say in logic, 'The world has this in it, and this, but not that.' For that would appear to presuppose that we were excluding certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case, since it would require that logic should go beyond the limits of the world; for only in that way could it view those limits from the other side as well. We cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either.

5.62 This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.

5.63 I am my world. (The microcosm.)

--Ludwig Wittgenstein "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"

:: Jim Nichols 6/03/2002 02:58:00 AM [+] ::
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